Did you ever have to fiddle around with countless custom fields to have your images displayed in your favorite WordPress photoblog theme? With PhotoQ 1.8, stuff like having to manually enter the correct URL into the correct custom field becomes a thing of the past. In PhotoQ 1.8, theme support through views has been completely reworked and made so flexible that it now works with virtually any WordPress theme there is. Further, a convenient auto-configuration option allows you to setup PhotoQ to work with your favorite theme without, well, configuring anything.

Use any theme you like together with PhotoQ, thanks to the new “freeform” view option

Zero-configuration presets for some of the most popular photo themes

Theme authors can easily generate presets for the users of their themes

At the same time the iQ2 Photoblog Theme has also been updated, there is now an option to add a static front page. For a full list of changes of both PhotoQ 1.8 and iQ2 1.2 as well as for upgrading instructions, read the rest of this post. For a complete documentation and installation instructions, please check out the main PhotoQ page.

I am still looking for translators for PhotoQ and iQ2. Right now, they are both available in Chinese (Hongkong, Taiwan), English, French and German. If you are able to help with a translation into any other language, just drop me a line. Any help is highly appreciated.

Upgrading to PhotoQ 1.8

Upgrading to PhotoQ 1.7 is done in the usual way, most easily via the WordPress auto-upgrade feature. It is always wise to backup your database and files before you upgrade. If you use both, iQ2 and PhotoQ, please upgrade iQ2 to version 1.2 before upgrading PhotoQ to version 1.8. If you don’t, PhotoQ cannot be activated while the old iQ2 theme is running.

Reworked PhotoQ Views

Views define what information is displayed how on your blog. Until now, PhotoQ defined two views, one called “content” another one called “excerpt”, corresponding to the content and excerpt section of a WordPress post. This allowed you to e.g. define that you wanted a thumbnail to appear in the excerpt part of the post, and the full image in the content part. Additionally, you had the option to also include EXIF information and/or an image description in the content part.

In PhotoQ 1.8 you can define your own custom views in addition to the “content” and “excerpt” views. Information that you add to a custom view is added to a custom field of the same name. This is useful if you use a theme that e.g. requests that for every post, the thumbnail is placed in a custom field called “thumbnail”. If you setup a corresponding view in PhotoQ, PhotoQ will do this automatically for you for every post you publish.

Further, every view also has a new “freeform” option. As the name implies, freeform gives you complete freedom over the formatting of the view. This feature is very powerful, you can add any information provided by PhotoQ such as EXIF information or image dimensions and combine it with whatever HTML you desire. Freefrom makes the views feature very flexible, such that you can adapt it for virtually any theme that exists.

Auto-Configuration Through Presets

All PhotoQ settings that determine how your posts are displayed can be saved to a XML configuration file. This allows theme authors to create presets that can be loaded into PhotoQ with a single click. Like this, users can setup PhotoQ to work with a given theme without touching any of the view settings described above. PhotoQ today already ships with presets for the following popular photo centric themes

If you are a theme author and want your users to also benefit from the auto-configuration option, just create a preset and make it available to your users on your website. Your users can then place the file in a folder called “myPhotoQPresets” inside “wp-content” and it will show up in the list of presets that can be loaded into PhotoQ. Once you created a preset, you can also send me a pointer, such that I can include it in the above list of PhotoQ defaults.

I had emailed you a few months back but gave up on this project for a while. Now I want to get it to work. I am now getting an error that PhotoQ cannot create or write to a directory. The path is totally wrong! See:
The file upload failed with the following error: Unable to create directory D:\W3Sites\n7xei.com\www\wp/D:/W3Sites/n7xei.com/www/wp/wp-content/qdir. Is its parent directory writable by the server?. The names of the folders are coorect, but the path it way off base. I have not done anything to change it. Any ideas?

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I am looking for an image gallery that I can plug into my WP site, link individual page galleries to folders (already uploaded to the site) and allow viewers to enlarge images from thumbnails and download them. I would like the option to give most folder contents for free. I would also like to have at least 1 folder (page gallery) that will let me link to paypal. It would also be nice if it had some fancy Flash display. Does such a creature exist? I am not opposed to paying a little for it if I have to but, cannot afford to spend much at this point. Thanks for any input, JohnG

i can only tell you what photoq is able to do for you. first of all note that at the moment photoq is really geared towards photoblogs rather than galleries, as it only allows one photo per post (even though i am working on a new version that let's you have multiple photos per post. however, this may still take some time to finish). you can still have gallery-like pages with many photos via tags and/or categories (see e.g. the iq2 demo: http://www.whoismanu.com/iq2-demo/). if one photo per post is too big of a constraint you may want to look at a gallery plugin like nextgen: http://alexrabe.de/wordpress-plugins/nextgen-gallery/.

importing photos that are already on the server should be no problem through photoq's ftp upload feature.

linking to paypal and flash display, should both be possible. but you need to code them at the theme level, or find a theme that already does what you want.

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I've been doing my blog regarding Coach Diaper Bags and I'm putting up sample pics in it. Is this the same with the next gen plugin or much more advance and has better results? please enlighten me up guys because I'll switch to this plugin immediately if it's much better for my new blog here.

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